Locandina Giorni D'Amore Sul Filo di una Lama/Days of Love on the Razor's Edge (1973)

Another obscure giallo recently unearthed from the national archives, A Dying Need reminds me a lot of director Duccio Tessari's excellent The Death Occured Last Night where we get to follow parallel investigations which eventually meet in the final reel.  Shot for the most part in the northern coastal town of Arenzano, it's a thinly-veiled … Continue reading A Dying Need/Una Voglia da Morire (1965)

'Telefoni bianchi' (lit: white telephones) is a comedy sub-genre popular in Italy between 1936 and 1943. The name derives from the presence of white telephones in the first films produced in this period, symptomatic of social well-being: a status symbol apt to mark the difference between the popular bakelite phones, cheaper and therefore more widespread, … Continue reading Telefoni Bianchi